A Selection of Recent Talks by F.S. Roberts
(this is not complete and I apologize that not all talks listed here are available electronically)

  • Voting Problems and Computer Science Applications
    (talk at Math Awareness Month Workshop on Mathematics and Voting Theory, New Jersey City University, April 2008)

  • Decision Support for Port of Entry Inspection
    (semimar at Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, January 2008)

  • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs (Also: REU Seminar at DIMACS, July 2008)
    (Minisymposium on Discrete Sciences Applications in Homeland Security, Rutgers University, September 2007)
    (Also, at "BuckFest! A Conference in Honor of F.R. "Buck" McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, May 2008)

  • Applications of Measurement Theory/Meaningfulness in Epidemiology/Public Health
    (Plenary talk at European Mathematical Psychology Group meeting, Luxembourg, September 2007, and at MINET - European Commission Measuring the Impossible Network Training Course, Genoa, Italy, June 2008).

  • Why Bio-Math? Why Now?
  • Meaningless Statements in Epidemiology
    (Talk at Workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 2007).

  • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs
    (Talk at DyDAn program on Mathematics and Homeland Security for High School Teachers, May 2007).

  • Locating Sensors to Detect Chem, Bio, or Nuclear Threats
    (Talk at DyDAn program on Mathematics and Homeland Security for High School Teachers, May 2007).

  • Computer Science and Decision Making
    (Talk at Workshop on Voting Theory and Preference Modeling, University of Paris - Dauphine, October 2006).

  • New Challenges for Modelers of Infectious Diseases of Africa
    (Talk at Workshop on on Facing the Challenge of Infectious Diseases in Africa: The Role of Mathematical Modeling in Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2006).

  • Measurement of Pollution
    (Two hour tutorial at MAA Shortcourse on Environmental Modeling, Knoxville, 8-06).

  • Social Choice and Computer Science
    (Semi-plenary talk at EUROXXI (21st European Conference on Operations Research sponsored by the Association of European Operational Research Societies, EURO), Rekjavik, Iceland, July 2006).

  • Computer Science and the Socioeconomic Sciences
    (Presentation at Xi'An Xiaotong University, Xi'An, China, 5-06).

  • Consensus List Colorings and Physical Mapping of DNA
  • Insightful Understanding of China's Higher Education and Research in Computer Science and Information Technology
    (At Opening Ceremony for NSF Beijing Office, Beijing, China, 5-06).

  • Research Centers
    (At US-China Computer Science Leadership Summit, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 5-06).

  • (DIMACS/DIMATIA/Renyi Combinatorial Challenges Conference, 4-06).

  • Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection for WMDs
    (Conference on Mathematical Methods in Counter-terrorism, Columbia, SC, 11-05).
    Shorter version at INFORMS Special Session on Diagnosis Models for Port of Entry Inspections, San Francisco, 11-05.

  • Graph-theoretical Problems Arising from Defending Against Bioterrorism and Controlling the Spread of Fires:
  • Graph-theoretic Models of the Spread and Control of Disease and of Fighting Fires
  • Decision Support Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection
    (Presentation at DHS meeting on "Research and Development Partnerships in Homeland Security", Boston, 4-05)

  • On Balanced Signed Graphs and Consistent Marked Graphs
    (Lecture at Workshop on Graph Colorings and their Generalizations, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, 4-05)

  • Graph-Theoretical Models of the Spread and Control of Disease
    (Talk at Seminar on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, DIMACS, 10-04)

  • The Theory of Measurement and its Applications
    (6 hours of tutorial lectures at DIMACS Working Group Meeting on Order-theoretic Aspects of Epidemiology, DIMACS, 3-05)

  • Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?
    (Luncheon briefing for Members of Congress and Staff, House Office Building, Washington, DC, sponsored by American Mathematical Society, 9/04)

  • Competition Graphs of Semiorders
  • The RNA Detective Game: Finding RNA Chains From Fragments
    (DIMACS Biomath Connect Institute Meeting 7-04)
    (DIMACS Biomath Connect Institute Meeting 7-06)

  • Role Assignments and Social Networks
    (Brest, France Minisymposium 10-04, MAA NJ Section Meeting 3/04, DIMACS-DIMATIA-Renyi Meeting on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, Budapest, 4/04 and RPI colloquium)

  • Homeland Security Research at DIMACS
    (Seminar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2-05)

  • Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?
    (Precalculus Conference, 3/04)

  • Information Processing in the Biological Organism (A Systems Biology Approach)
    (Report on a Workshop of the same name, at BISTI Symposium, NIH, 11-03)

  • Overview of Homeland Security Research at Rutgers
    (State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research, 10-03)

  • Telecom Research at Rutgers University
    (NJ Commission on Jobs, Growth, and Economic Development, 7-03)

  • The Bioterrorism Sensor Location Problem
    (Modeling and Prediction of Disease Conference 3/03; also Los Alamos National Lab 5/03)

  • The Tree of Life: Challenges for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science
    (DIMACS Tree of Life Workshop 3/03)

  • Mathematics and Bioterrorism: Graph-Theoretical Models of Spread and Control of Disease
    (DIMACS Connect Institute 7/02 and talks at West Point Discrete Math Meeting 10/02 and colloquia at Colgate and Montclair State)

  • Challenges for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science in the Defense Against Bioterrorism
    (SIAM Meeting, 7/02)

  • Consensus List Coloring and Physical Mapping of DNA
    ("Rota Lecture" at Conference on the Interconnections among Codes, Designs, Graphs, and Molecular Biology, Taiwan, 5/02; also at International Conference on Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis, Irvine, CA, 8/03, and DIMACS-DIMATIA-Renyi Meeting on Generalizations of Graph Coloring 10-03)

  • Modeling and Bioterrorism: Why Model?
    (Conference on Mathematical Modeling of the Spread of Selected Bioterrorism Agents, MITRE Corporation, 3/02)

  • Voting, Metasearch, and Bioconsensus
    (NY Academy of Science Distinguished Scientist Lecture, 5/01; also at U. of South Carolina and U. of Paris IX)

  • On Social Justice, International Relations, the Analysis of Literature, and the Study of Social Networks and Communication Networks (or: On Balanced Signed Graphs and Consistent Marked Graphs)
    (seminars at DIMATIA in Prague, DIMACS REU program, and elsewhere)
    **(sorry, not available electronically right now)

  • Meaningless Statements
    (Numerous seminars/colloquia, including Waterloo, Telcordia, Duke, and DIMACS REU seminar)
    ** (sorry, not available electronically right now)

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